31.
31. Economist John
Maynard Keynes believed that depressed economies could be jump-started
by

Deficit spending

Printing more paper money

Taking the nation off the gold standard

Protecting organized labor

32.
32. Most New Deal
legislation in the First Hundred Days was passed to

Provide immediate relief

Put the economy on the road to long-term recovery

Initiate reforms to prevent another depression

All of the above

33.
33. Hoover’s attempts
to end the depression differed from Roosevelt’s methods in that

Hoover pumped money into the economy by creating new
jobs and welfare programs, whereas Roosevelt merely tried to prop
up failing corporations and banks

Roosevelt pumped money into the economy
by creating new jobs and welfare programs, whereas Hoover merely
tried to prop up failing corporations and banks

Hoover tried to help farmers first, whereas Roosevelt wanted
to help factory workers first

Hoover thought the federal government should assume control
of all banks in the country, whereas Roosevelt believed that richer
Americans should pay heavier taxes in order to redistribute wealth
more evenly

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34.
34. How did the New
Deal assist farmers?

By subsidizing them to cut back production

By subsiding them to plant soil-enriching crops

By artificially inflating agricultural prices

All of the above

35.
35. All of the following
were consequences of the Tennessee Valley Authority except

It spawned a flurry of dam-building throughout the West

It brought electricity and modernization to one of
the nation’s poorest regions

It convinced Republicans that deficit
spending on social welfare programs could have huge benefits

It provided almost full employment in the Tennessee River
valley

36. Congress passed
or created all of the following in 1933 as part
of the First New Deal except

The Public Works Administration (PWA)

The Social Security Act

The Federal Emergency Relief Act (FERA)

The Civilian Conservation Corp (CCC)

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37.
37. The CCC, the
PWA, the CWA, and the WPA all were similar in that they all were

Created to reform the financial sector of the economy to
prevent another depression

Created under the First New Deal

Created to provide immediate economic
relief

Shot down by the Supreme Court only a few years after their
creation

38.
38. Roosevelt reformed
the banking and financial sectors of the economy in all of the following
ways except